Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, describes the use of technology to connect or integrate existing applications to create a composite enterprise-wide nervous system. This integration concept delivered by the Savant Integrator, a generic, independent EAI product, comprised of the core Integration Manager that communicates with various applications through Source/Destination Adapters.

Integrating applications in an enterprise helps tie the external application's functions more closely to the business processes, reducing costs and improving performance at the same time.

Features:

• Serve the integration needs of business processes that cross organizational boundaries
• Well defined Transaction based Business component
• Intelligent Transport layer to transform functional data using high end technologies (JMS, EJB/COM, SOAP, XML and HTTP, to name a few)
• Plug-and-play application technologies
• Enables you to meet the increased need for real-time process integration and integrity
• Light weight Adapter Development kit (ADK)
• Dynamic and Easy Adapter deployment through user friendly GUI
• Compliance with J2EE standards, ensuring high scalability and portability
• Use of efficient DataMap Algorithm

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Components

• Event Manager : Listens for events from one application, and notifies it to another application.
• Transport Manager : A layer which covers the various data flow concepts using Text, Bytes, Objects and Messages.
• Transaction Manager : Performs Commit and Rollback functionality.
• Configuration Manager : Stores and manages the Configuration details using efficient data structures.
• Deployment Manager : Handles the deployment of adapters, and is capable of dynamic deployment process.
• Data Transformation Manager : Converts datatypes from one application to another using rich DataMap algorithm.

Benefits to the Business:

• Automation : The Savant Integrator provides the ability to automate business processes across the enterprise and across existing boundaries.
• Consistency in application interfacing : Applications that provide interfaces need only to connect to and interface with one point; And the same interface becomes extensible to multiple applications and users.
• Cost benefits : The EAI strategy of the Savant Integrator is to create one interface per application. This lowers the cost of upgrades or modifications/additions to applications. Also, investments in legacy systems are protected, helping profit.
• Manage Change better : The Savant Integrator addresses the ever-changing needs of business by facilitating flexible functional access and flow within business processes, enabling better management of growth and change.